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APPLE RESTORES FORMER BANK FOR NEW STORE 06
PRINCE GEORGE ON BALCONY AS QUEEN MARKS CEREMONIAL BIRTHDAY 14
OCULUS' VIRTUAL-REALITY HEADSET TO SIMULATE TOUCH, GESTURES 18
NEW EXHIBIT OFFERS DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD WAR II END 26

THE 201 5 WWDC: WHAT'S NEXT 36
ONCE-OUSTED TWITTER CEO GETS 2ND CHANCE TO RUN SERVICE 56
'JURASSIC WORLD' BITES OFF BIGGEST GLOBAL DEBUTOFALL TIME 64

E3 ELECTRONIC ENTERTAINMENT EXPO 74
YOUTUBE TO LAUNCH APP, SITE DEDICATED TO GAMING 98
INSIDE OUT: THE NEXT BIG HIT ANIMATION 104
CARRIE UNDERWOOD HITS HER STRIDE AT CMA MUSIC FESTIVAL 126

ITUNES REVIEW 132
Q&A: NET NEUTRALITY RULES GO INTO EFFECT 148
CROWDS, MUSIC, FLOATS FOR NYC'S PUERTO RICAN DAY PARADE 156
OFFICIALS SAY DEEPLY PERSONAL INFORMATION IN HACKERS' HANDS 158
TARAJI P HENSON ON 'EMPIRE' AND ITS SUCCESSFUL SEASON 168
TWITTER'S TWISTS AND TURNS _ CAN IT KEEP FLYING 174
'THE ILLUSIONISTS' TO REAPPEAR LIKE MAGIC ON BROADWAY AGAIN 182
SCIENCE: SPACEX ANNOUNCES DESIGN COMPETITION FOR HYPERLOOP 186
HEALTH: FDA TELLS FOOD INDUSTRY TO PHASE OUT ARTIFICIAL TRANS FATS 196
REVIEW: GEEKS GO GANGSTER IN FRESH, LIVELY "DOPE" 204
FROM 'IDOL' TO QUEEN, LAMBERT SPANS GENERATIONS OF FANS 210
MINDY KALING TALKS PERSONALITY, PIXAR, 'MINDY PROJECT MOVE 216

JUDD APATOW REFLECTS ON A LIFE IN COMEDY IN NEW BOOK 220

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APPLE RESTORES
EORMER BANK
FOR NEW STORE

To create the newest Apple store to sell iPhones,
smartwatches and other modern gadgetry,
Apple took a look back at the 1920s.

The new store on New York's Upper East Side
occupies part of a Beaux Arts building that
originally housed the U.S. Mortgage & Trust
bank. Apple sought to restore some of the
building's old grandeur by reproducing the
original chandeliers seen in old photographs,
restoring marble floors and pilasters and turning
a bank vault into a VIP showroom.

It's all part of Apple's effort to keep its stores
distinct - not just from other retailers but from
each other.

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And as Apple looks to open new stores or
renovate existing ones - including the iconic
New York Fifth Avenue store, with its distinctive
glass-cube entrance - the company will look for
additional ways to do that.

"It's no different than every customer downloads
different apps and customizes their phones
differently," said Angela Ahrendts, the senior vice
president who oversees the company's retail and
online stores.

Many retailers keep their stores uniform so you
can recognize them when visiting a new city or
country. Even if you don't see its logo, you can
often tell a McDonald's is a McDonald's from its
distinctly sloped roof.

Apple has generic stores, too, such as ones in
shopping malls. Many of Apple's larger stores in
major cities make heavy use of glass, giving them
a modern, open feel.

But Apple has its share of stores that try to blend
into original, classical architecture, though most
are in Europe, where such buildings are more
prevalent. The store in New York's Grand Central
train station sits at the top of a marble staircase.
The one across the street from Paris's Opera
House greets customers with mosaic floor tiles.
The Brisbane, Australia, store is in a building that
served as an Allied military headquarters during
World War II.

Although designing stores individually costs
more, there's payoff in "a level of excitement,
engagement and interest from consumers," said
Michael Stephenson, associate strategy director
at Fitch, a branding and design consultancy.
Apple isn't saying how much it's spending.

Stephenson said Apple is a pioneer in designing
stores, but even chains such as McDonald's and
Starbucks are rethinking how they make stores
fit into their settings.

Apple's new Upper East Side store, which opens
Saturday, has a marble entrance and no sign

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of anything Apple outside, save for a black flag
with a white Apple logo hanging from the bank's
original flag pole. While the store itself is small,
tall ceilings and the usual open layout make it
look spacious.

The teller windows might be gone, but Apple
went into minute details to restore the building.

The entryway, stairs and other parts of the
architecture are made of Botticino marble,
the same Italian marble used at Grand Central
and Penn Station in New York (and what was
originally used in the bank). Six metal chandeliers
- reproduced to match the originals from old
photographs - grace the ceilings.

Downstairs, the heavily reinforced vault,
complete with a massive steel door behind a
set of steel bars, might remind visitors of an old
gangster movie. This time, though, the door
leads to a room for VIP customers, meetings and
other purposes.

Upper East Side will be Apple's 266th store in the
U.S. and seventh in New York City, a key market
for Apple because it gets twice as much traffic as
stores in other U.S. cities.

The neighborhood has a mix of boutiques, art
galleries, museums and residential units. Some
residents worry about long lines and traffic,
particularly when Apple releases new products.
A lawsuit filed in a New York state court last
week warns of diminished property values and
quality of life.

But Apple has cleared the necessary regulatory
hurdles. The store is about half the size of most
other Apple stores and is designed primarily for
local residents and businesses needing a repair
or training, Ahrendts said. Many people now buy
products online anyway, she noted.

"The cube works brilliantly on Fifth Avenue
and has been one of the most iconic sites," she
said. "But that works there. That wouldn't work
everywhere."

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As Apple opens new stores, it will also renovate
about 20 existing U.S. stores, including the
ones on Fifth Avenue and San Francisco's Union
Square. Ahrendts said 60 percent of the U.S.
stores predate the iPhone and have outgrown
their space. Many stores stated for renovations
will also double in size, in some cases moving
to a new location nearby. That gives Apple
opportunities to rethink designs.

The Fifth Avenue store, which draws tourists
from around the world, will temporarily move
soon to another iconic space, the F.A.O. Schwarz
toy store that Tom Hanks made famous in "Big."

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PRINCE GEORGE
ON BALCONY AS
QUEEN MARKS
CEREMONIAL
BIRTHDAY

Queen Elizabeth II marked her ceremonial
birthday Saturday with the traditional "Trooping
the Color" parade in the heart of London - and
23-month-old Prince George made his debut on
the Buckingham Palace balcony.

The queen was joined by senior royals including
the Duchess of Cambridge, who made her first
appearance in public since leaving the hospital
with newborn Princess Charlotte six weeks ago.

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There was no sign of Charlotte but George
captivated throngs of well-wishers by appearing
on the balcony in the arms of his father. Prince
William, who was in full military garb.

It was the first time George took part in the
royal tradition of gathering the extended family
on the balcony on important national occasions.
He was the youngest person there; great-
grandfather Prince Philip, 94, was the oldest.

Prince Charles, William and Princess Anne
were on horseback for the start of the annual
ceremony, later joining the others on the balcony.

The queen turned 89 on April 21, her actual
birth date, which is traditionally marked in
private, with a public celebration held in June,
when London's fickle weather is more likely to
be favorable.

Crowds gathered outside Buckingham Palace to
view the festivities though the day was cloudy
and cool.

Elizabeth, wearing a peach and silver coat dress
with a matching hat, inspected 1,100 soldiers
from the Household Division at the Horse
Guards Parade grounds near the palace.

She arrived in an open-topped Ascot Landau
carriage.

The Duchess of Cambridge, formerly Kate
Middleton, wore a blue and white dress by
Catherine Walker and a whimsical white hat by
Lock and Co. for the occasion. She arrived with
Camilla, the wife of Prince Charles.

Kate and William and their two young children
have spent much of the time since Charlotte's
birth at their country retreat on the queen's
estate at Sandringham in rural Norfolk. William
has resumed his job as an air ambulance pilot
after taking a break for paternity leave.

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0CULU5'
VIRTUAL-REALITY
HEADSET TO

SIMULATETOUCH

GESTURES

Oculus is expanding its virtual-reality headset to
simulate the sensation of touch and gesturing
as part of its quest to blur the lines between the
fake and genuine world.

The touch controllers unveiled Thursday by
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey are designed to
enable people to pick up guns, throw Frisbees or
carry out other actions within the fantasy scenes
they see through a virtual reality headset called
the Rift. The controllers also will make it possible
to point, wave inside the video games being
played on the Rift, according to Luckey.

The half-moon shaped controllers, called
Oculus Touch, will be showcased along with the
Rift headset next week in Los Angeles at the
Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, a major
video game conference.

"We really think Oculus Touch is going to surprise
you," Luckey, 22, said. "We think they are going
to deliver an entirely new set of virtual reality
experiences."

Besides showing off its latest gadgetry, Oculus
provided a glimpse at the line-up of video games
being designed for the Rift and announced a
partnership with Microsoft Corp. to make the
headset compatible with the Xbox console
and devices running on the next version of the
Windows operating system scheduled to be
released next month.

Oculus' virtual-reality technology is so highly
regarded that Facebook bought it for $2 billion
last year.

Since that acquisition, the Rift has remained in a
testing phase that has kept its early prototypes in
the hands of video game makers and computer
programmers. The first consumer model of
the headset won't be released until sometime
during the first three months of next year. The
touch controllers start selling shortly after that,
at some point between April and June.

The Rift's price hasn't been announced yet,
although Oculus has previously said the headset
and a personal computer need to power the
technology will cost less than $1,500. The Rift
package will also include a wireless controller
and adapter for the new alliance with Microsoft,
which is branching into another emerging niche
of technology niche known as "augmented"
reality with its own HoloLens headset.

Facebook and Oculus called reporters to a
San Francisco studio Thursday for a glimpse of
what the Rift's consumer model will look like.

It's a lightweight device that will fit on top of a

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person's head like a helmet. Images are viewed
through two screens housed inside a visor. The
audio is piped through removable headphones.

The goal is to trick people's brains into believing
what they are seeing and hearing is the real thing
instead of a fabrication, said Oculus CEO Brandon
Iribe, who started the company with Luckey three
years ago with $2.4 million in financing.

The Rift's initial target market will be avid video
game players. The inaugural line-up of video
games built for the Rift include titles from CCP
Games, Gunfire Games and Insomniac Games
that will appear to transport players into space, an
artic zone and a fictional land where a young man
defends his home turf from a dragon.

Luckey and Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg,
though, believe the Oculus technology eventually
will extend far beyond video games to enable
people's avatars to attend business meetings
and bring together friends and families in virtual
living rooms even though they are many miles
apart. Movie buffs might even be able to insert
themselves as characters in their favorite flicks.

"This isn't science fiction," Luckey said of the Rift.
"This is reality."

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NEW EXHIBIT
OFFERS DIFFERENT
PERSPECTIVE ON
WORLD WAR II END

As the 70th anniversary of the end of World War
II approaches, a new museum exhibition provides
a different perspective on the end of the conflict -
one in which Japanese were the victims.

That has the potential to upset American
veterans, especially at a time of intensifying focus
on Japan's reluctance to face up to its
militaristic past.

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The American University Museum is showcasing
artifacts and art recalling the bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: a pocket watch that
stopped at 8:15 a.m., when the first atomic
bomb dropped; a picture of twisted bodies
and screaming faces engulfed by the flames;
the school lunch box of a girl who disappeared
without trace. Defenders of the bombings say it
alleviated the need for a land invasion of Japan
that would have cost many American lives.

The precise death tolls from the bombings are
unknown, but it is believed about 200,000 people
were killed. On the 50th anniversary, controversy
surrounded an exhibit at the Smithsonian
Institution of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that
dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, Aug. 6, 1945.
The 1995 exhibit was scaled back dramatically
because of U.S. veterans' protests that it
portrayed the Japanese as victims, rather than
as aggressors.

That year, Peter Kuznick, director of American
University's Nuclear Studies Institute, responded
to the controversy by staging an exhibition of
artifacts the Smithsonian would not. Doing so at a
private institution, and not a government-funded
one, made it less contentious.

He's reprising that effort, 20 years later, with a
display scheduled to run from Saturday through
Aug. 16. It includes six pictures on folding screens
by the late Iri and Toshi Maruki, a husband-and-
wife team whose powerful depictions of nuclear
horrors, known as the Hiroshima Panels, are
being shown in the U.S. capital for the first time.

In an adjacent room are 25 artifacts collected
from the debris - a rosary, a glass fragment
removed from the flesh of a casualty, a container
of sake, a student's cap and a student's shoe.

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum have provided
an explanatory account of the bombings with
photos, including panoramas of the two leveled
cityscapes and images of the victims.

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Yoshiko Hayakawa, who brought the panels from
a gallery outside Tokyo, said it had been difficult
to find a venue willing or able to display them in
the United States. They were last shown in the
U.S. in 1995, in Minnesota.

"They go right to the heart of people who wish
for long-lasting peace and for a ban on nuclear
weapons/' she said.

Kuznick said the primary aim of the exhibition
is to portray the human suffering caused by
the atomic bombings that ushered in an era in
which absolute destruction of the planet became
possible and "nobody's future is
guaranteed anymore."

He lamented that Americans - including
undergraduates he teaches - have become less
aware since the end of the Cold War about the
devastating impact a nuclear conflict would have.

"Part of why we're doing this is because the
danger has not really passed, and it's important
that people focus on it again," he said.

The exhibition shows not only Japanese suffering.
Two of the Hiroshima Panels on display portray
the death of American prisoners of war and
Korean forced laborers in the bombings.

Most haunting is "Crows," a picture in black ink
which depicts birds picking at the corpses of
Koreans, reflecting the discrimination they faced
even in death. The picture's caption, a verse
penned by the artists, says the Korean bodies
"were left on the streets to the very last."

"Not only are we portraying the Japanese as
victims, we're also portraying the Japanese
as victimizers. That in no way mitigates the
American responsibility for using atomic bombs,
but it does complicate the narrative a little bit,"
Kuznick said.

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Jan Thompson, president of the American
Defenders of Bataan & Corregidor Memorial
Society, which advocates for American former
prisoners of war of the Japanese, said atomic
bombs were a tragedy that no one should
celebrate. She said she has not seen the
exhibition yet but was concerned it would
promote the view that that use of the bombs
was not justified.

Kuznick said he has faced no opposition so far to
this year's exhibition.

But a seminar June 23 associated with the
exhibition that will discuss President Harry
Truman's decision to use the bomb and its
historical implications could raise hackles.

Panelists include historians, including Kuznick,
who question whether the United States needed
to do so to end the war with Japan, and whether
it was intended as a warning to the Soviet Union,
a wartime ally that would emerge as a rival
superpower.

Online:

Exhibit: http://www.american.edu/cas/
museum

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WHAT APPLE DIDNTSHOWIN
THE WWDC KEYNOTE

MANY EXCITING DEVELOPMENTS LEFT
OUT OF THE KEYNOTE

We learned a lot about the future direction
of the world's most valuable company in
the (as usual) eagerly anticipated keynote
speech at the latest Worldwide Developers
Conference (WWDC) earlier this month. It was
certainly an event not short of big product
and software announcements - from a new
■Gadget News app and expanded support for
Apple Pay to the unveiling of OS X El Capitan.
But what didn't we hear about?

The short answer to that question, it turns
out, is "quite a lot". Let us, therefore, sift
through just some of the unconfirmed
reports and stories that have eked out since
the WWDC festivities came to a close on
June 12 - beginning with the latest news on
the Apple TV.

THE WAIT FOR A NEW APPLE TV
CONTINUES

A lot of observers expected something big
to do with the Apple TV to happen at the
event, especially as it has now been three
years since it was given a refresh, with a
new version of the set-top box also once
predicted to break cover at Apple's Spring
Forward event earlier this year.

That event only saw the announcement of
a price cut for the current model and a link-
up with HBO, and then at WWDC, the Apple
TV made no appearance at all. According
to The New York Times, Apple had been
planning as recently as mid-May to draw
attention to new Apple TV hardware at the
latest San Francisco event, together with an
enhanced remote control and a developers'
toolkit for the creation of apps for the
entertainment device.

However, the newspaper's Brian X. Chen said
that "those plans were postponed partly
because the product was not ready, according
to two people briefed on the product." It
does seem pretty certain that a new Apple
TV is on the way, though, Applelnsider having
suggested that it could be released "this
fall, though that may depend on whether a
rumored subscription TV service is in tow."

still, the non-appearance of a revamped
Apple TV at WWDC was a shock for some
people - suggestions having even been
made that a 'black box' in the center of
the kaleidoscopic banner promoting the
event depicted an Apple TV. The news that
there would be no actual version of the
set-top box at the event led one observer
to resignedly dismiss the graphic as "just a
boring old app icon".

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SOME SERIOUSLY REVEALING
iOS9CODE

As a matter of fact, we can be fairly
sure about a host of unreleased Apple
products and features, thanks to a series of
revelations in the current iOS 9 beta code.

We have the noted iOS developer Steve
Troughton-Smith to thank for pointing out
the mention of Apple TV in both UIKit and
GameKit, the interface and multiplayer
gaming frameworks that are usually
centered on the iPhone and iPad.

Such a finding definitely points to a bigger
role in future for the longtime Apple
"hobby", an updated variant of the set-top
box now expected to incorporate an App
Store, which on the above evidence, might
include games. But it's not the only thing
that we have learned from the early iOS 9
code, as it was reported that an even larger
iPad keyboard also appears to be contained
within. There is said to be support for not
only a shortcut bar, but also Tab and Caps
Lock keys.

What does this enlarged keyboard - in
Troughton-Smith's words, with its link to "a
much larger heretofore unseen iPad screen
size" - point to? Well, it certainly backs up
the longstanding rumor of a 12.9-inch 'iPad
Pro', which it has been said will be aimed at
"prosumers" who would appreciate more
advanced features for making their tablet as
useful for work as for play.

Although it seemingly wasn't ready for
WWDC, we see no reason why the larger

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iPad couldn't finally break cover in the
second half of this year. If and when it does,
we can also reportedly expect a 2732 x
2048 screen resolution, which would far
dwarf that of any previous Apple tablet.

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iPHONE 7 CAMERA IMPROVEMENTS

There's no question that today's era of
popular photography is emphatically that
of the 'selfie', with the likes of selfie apps
and selfie sticks proliferating. So, how does
Apple respond to this with its similarly
popular smartphone? The answer is... by
ensuring that it can take amazing selfies
itself, even in the dark.

That's just one thing that we have heard
will define the front-facing camera of
the next, seventh generation iPhone.
Whereas the cameras on the existing
iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus shoot at 720p
and do not have a flash, the rumor pages
are suggesting that the next version of
the handset very much will have a flash
incorporated into its FaceTime camera. A
developer named Hamza Sood said that
this snapper would be able to capture
videos in 1080p and at 240 frames per
second slow motion.

While such camera enhancements will
certainly excite those looking to purchase
the latest Apple smartphone in order to
make the most of iOS 9, even those who
simply choose to download the software
onto their existing iDevice aren't likely
to be dissatisfied by the experience that
it provides. That's because 9to5Mac has
suggested that the latest iOS will be
specifically optimized to work well on
older generation devices. That would make
for a leaner, faster iOS for a much wider
range of users.

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FAST ENHANCEMENTS TO
APPLE WATCH

It might not have escaped your attention that
Apple also gave the latest software for its
still only two-month old Watch an airing at
WWDC - and all of the indications so far are
that it's an even zippier and more meaningful
upgrade for the device that we first thought.

The watchOS 2 software won't become
available until the fall, yet we're already
hearing about all of the incredible things that
third-party apps will be able to do, including
the generation of Passes to work with
Passbook - which iOS 9 will rename as Wallet
- and the direct dialing of phone numbers. It

will also be possible to record audio directly
from your wrist before using it in messages
and notes - perfect if you need to quickly
dictate information.

It's interesting to observe just how quickly
Apple has got to work on improving the
Watch - the extra functionality that watchOS
2 introduces almost akin to us already
getting a 'Watch 2'. It is certainly a change
from the incremental updates that we
got following the first generation iPhone
software, and demonstrates that the boys
at Cupertino are far from complacent about
the fortunes of this already staggeringly
successful wearable.

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MAPS ALSO A RENEWED FOCUS

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Finally, no one keeping track of Apple's post-
WWDC goings-on could possibly miss the fact
that it is now sending cars onto American,
British and Irish streets to gather data for
improving its Maps service.

The fact that images were to be among
that data was effectively confirmed by a
statement on the news on Apple's website

that it would "blur faces and license plates on
collected images prior to publication." This all
points firmly to the idea that Apple is trying
to create a rival to Google's long-established
Street View service.

Admittedly though, even such a service would
only put Apple on a par with a circa 2006

Google in this area. To truly take the challenge
to the search giant in the year 2015 as far
as mapping is concerned, one would surely
expect the Cupertino firm to create much
more detailed and nuanced maps of city
streets, as Google and others are currently
using to assist self-navigating vehicles.

Who knows... if there are other data
acquisition systems in those cars such as
radar or laser scanners, Apple might be
doing precisely this. But it remains to be
seen what exactly the company is up to in
this area, as could be said of so many areas
of the work of this still notoriously secretive
technology trailblazer.

Whatever you think of Apple, it is still
coming up with new and exciting ideas and
developments, as will doubtless play out in
fuller form in the months to come. Really -
could there be a more exciting time to be an
Apple fan? ■

by Benjamin Kerry & Gavin Lenaghan

ONCE-OUSTED TWITTER CEO GETS 2ND
CHANCE TO RUN SERVICE

Twitter once dunnped co-founder Jack Dorsey
as its CEO because he was deemed unqualified
for the job. Now, the short-messaging service
is giving Dorsey a second chance, at least
temporarily, to prove he can turn Twitter into a
profitable business and lure more people into
sharing tidbits of news, entertainment, insight
and tedium.

Dorsey's return as Twitter's interim CEO,
effective July 1, is the latest peculiar twist at
a San Francisco company teeming with the
drama of a soap opera through much of its
nine-year history.

Even Twitter's origins are a matter of dispute.
Dorsey has said he came up with the idea on
his own while at a San Francisco playground.
That accounts conflicts with another Twitter
co-founder, Noah Glass, who said he and
Dorsey came up with the concept while sitting
in a car parked on a rain-slickened street
in San Francisco at the end of an evening
drinking vodka.

Here's quick look at the cast of characters that
have passed through Twitter's revolving CEO
door:

JACK DORSEY

A one-time punk rocker who once wore a
nose ring, Dorsey is sometimes touted as
the technology industry's next Steve Jobs - a
comparison that he has never discouraged.

Dorsey's appointment as Twitter's interim CEO
draws more parallels with Jobs, Apple's co-
founder. After being ousted from Apple in the
mid-1980s. Jobs came back as the company's
interim CEO in 1997 and then stayed on oversee
the creation of the iPod, iPhone and iPad.

While running Apple, Jobs also was CEO of
computer animation pioneer Pixar. Dorsey,

38, will remain CEO at another San Francisco
company, mobile payment processor Square,
while guiding Twitter.

Dorsey should be highly motivated to lift
Twitter's stock price, which has plunged by
about 30 percent since the late April release
of its first-quarter results amplified investor
concerns about the company's uninterrupted
history of losses. He owns a 3.6 percent stake in
Twitter currently worth about $850 million.

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EVAN WILLIAMS

Williams, a Twitter co-founder who grew up as
a Nebraska farm boy, cast aside Dorsey as CEO
in 2008. At that time, Williams was considered
to be a better suited leader as Twitter tried to
mature from a fun-loving startup plagued by
frequent service outages.

As part of the change in command, Dorsey
handed over the voting rights of his Twitter
stock to Williams. Dorsey regained those rights
when Twitter completed its initial public offering
of stock in November 2013.

Williams remains a Twitter director and the
company's largest stockholder with a 7.8
percent stake worth $1.8 billion.

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DICK COSTOLO

Twitter turned to this former stand-up comic as
he got more serious about the business side of
things. After joining Twitter as its chief operating
officer in 2009, Costolo replaced Williams as
CEO less than a year later.

Costolo brought more stability to Twitter's
service by building more data centers to handle
all the tweets. He also oversaw a period of
rapid user and employee growth while injecting
ads into Twitter's stream of tweets. Those
achievements have been eclipsed by his inability
to come up for a formula for making money
at Twitter. Many analysts also blame Costolo
for the structure of Twitter's service, which has
been criticized as being too complicated for
casual users to understand and navigate.

Not long after he took over the reins, Costolo
convinced Dorsey to come back to Twitter as
an adviser - a role that cracked the door for
Dorsey's imminent return as interim CEO.

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'JURASSIC WORLD’
BITES OFF BIGGEST
GLOBAL DEBUT OF
ALL TIME

Dinosaurs are anything but extinct at the
box office.

"Jurassic World the fourth film in the series,
became the highest global opener of all time
with a staggering $511.8 million in its first days in
theaters. It also devoured a number of domestic
box office records with a $204.6 million take,
the Rentrak media-measurement company
estimated on Sunday.

In addition to setting a record for 2015, "Jurassic
World" is now the second-highest domestic
opening of all time, right behind "Marvel's The
Avengers" which took in $207.4 million in 2012.
By the time Monday actuals roll in, there is a
chance the film could dethrone "Avengers."

It has been 14 years since there has been a new
"Jurassic" film in theaters, and the combination
of cinematic grandeur, nostalgia and awareness
helped "Jurassic World" far surpass analyst
predictions going into the weekend, which had
the film on track for a $125 million opening.

"This over-performed in a way that I've never
seen," Rentrak's Senior Media Analyst Paul
Dergarabedian said. "It broke the box office
sound barrier."

Universal Pictures and Legendary co-financed the
$150 million, PG-13 rated film. Audiences in every
quadrant turned out to see the film in theaters.
According to exit polls, 39 percent were under the
age of 25, signifying the massive interest of both a
new generation and the continued enthusiasm of
those who saw "Jurassic Park" in 1993.

Also, audiences shelled out the extra money to
see the film in the biggest format possible. About
48 percent of domestic audiences opted for 3D.

"It is extraordinary. The film has resonated with
audiences around the world," said Nick Carpou,
Universal's president of domestic distribution.

Directed by Colin Trevorrow and executive-
produced by Steven Spielberg, "Jurassic World" is
the third in a series of blockbusters for star Chris
Pratt, who also starred in the 2014 box office hits
"Guardians of the Galaxy" and "The Lego Movie."

"He's like Jimmy Stewart with a leather vest
and muscles," Dergarbedian said. "He's a great
modern-day action hero."

This is also likely not the last "Jurassic" film
audiences will see. Pratt has stated in interviews
that he has signed on for future installments. But
right now. Universal is focusing on what's
in theaters.

"Jurassic World" is just the latest hit for Universal
in 2015, following "Fifty Shades of Grey"
and "Furious 7."

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No studio even tried to conn pete with the
unbeatable dinosaurs this weekend, and thus
holdovers populated the rest of the top five.
Melissa McCarthy's "Spy" earned $16 million
in its second weekend in theaters, bringing its
domestic total to $56.9 million. "San Andreas"
added another $11 million, and "Insidious
Chapter 3" and "Pitch Perfect 2" took the fourth
and fifth spots, with $7.3 million and
$6 million, respectively.

The dino-sized debut of "Jurassic World" is of
utmost importance to the industry, too, which
has seen three consecutive down weekends in
what was supposed to be a
ecord-setting summer.

"We got the wind back in the summer sails," said
Dergarabedian, citing upcoming films like "Inside
Out," "Mission: Impossible-Rogue Nation" and
"Ted 2" as some of the big films on the way. "This
gets the summer back on track."

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Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at
U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak.
Where available, the latest international numbers
for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final
domestic figures will be released Monday.

l.^Jurassic World/' $204.6 million ($307.2 million
international).

2."Spy," $16 million ($13.5 million international).

3."San Andreas," $11 million ($42.5 million
international).

4."lnsidious Chapter 3," $7.3 million ($6.7 million
international).

5."Pitch Perfect 2," $6 million ($2 million
international).

6."Entourage," $4.3 million ($1.8 million
international).

7."Mad Max: Fury Road," $4.1 million ($5.4 million
international).

8."Avengers: Age of Ultron," $3.6 million ($2 million
international).

9."Tomorrowland," $3.4 million ($4.6 million
international).

10."Love & Mercy," $1.8 million ($60,000
international).

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday
at international theaters (excluding the U.S. and
Canada), according to Rentrak:

1. "Jurassic World," $307.2 million.

2. "San Andreas," $42.5 million.

3. "Spy," $13.5 million.

4. "Insidious Chapter 3," $6.7 million.

5. "Mad Max: Fury Road," $5.4 million.

6. "Tomorrowland," $4.6 million.

7. "Hamari Adhuri Kahaani," $4.1 million.

8. "Stand by Me Doraemon," $4 million.

9. "Pitch Perfect 2" and "Avengers: Age of Ultron,"
$2 million.

10. "Entourage," $1.8 million.

ELECTRONIC ARTS HYPES ^STAR WARS'
GAMES AT E3

The Force is with Electronic Arts.

The video game publisher heavily focused
on its forthcoming "Star Wars" games
during a briefing Monday at the Electronic
Entertainment Expo.

EA showed off an extended look at the
upcoming multiplayer game "Star Wars:
Battlefront." The PlayStation 4 footage
showcased a land-air skirmish between
Empire and Republic forces on the icy planet
Hoth, culminating with Luke Skywalker and
Darth Vader locking light sabers.

"Today, by far the best place to truly lose
yourself and interact with 'Star Wars' is
video games," senior producer Sigurlina
Ingvarsdottir told the crowd inside the Shrine
Auditorium.

EA also announced an expansion for the
online role-playing game "Star Wars: The
Old Republic" dubbed "Knights of the Fallen
Empire" and a new mobile collectable card
game called "Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes."

Other titles teased included the cartoony
shooter sequel "Plants vs. Zombies: Garden
Warfare 2," the free-running romp "Mirror's
Edge: Catalyst," a photorealistic rendition of
racer "Need for Speed" and a new platformer
about a creature made of yarn called
"Unravel."

Besides "Star Wars," EA spent a considerable
chunk of its 90-minute presentation on sports
installments "NHL 16," "Madden NFL 16,"
"NBA Live 16" and "FIFA 16." Soccer great Pele
appeared on stage, and EA premiered a "FIFA
16" trailer narrated by him.

Online:

http://starwars.ea.com

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UBISOFTS ^GHOST RECON/ TOR
HONOR' UNVEILED AT E3

Ubisoft debuted a trio of new games at the
Electronic Entertainment Expo.

The video game publisher unveiled the
superhero-themed follow-up "South Park: The
Fractured But Whole/' the original combat
game "For Honor" and open-world "Tom
Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands" on Monday
during its E3 briefing.

"South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt
Stone were on hand to debut "The Fractured
But Whole," a sequel to the role-playing game
"South Park: The Stick of Truth."

"At the end of 'Stick of Truth/ we learned how
to make video games," Parker joked.

The multiplayer-focused brawler "For Honor"
will pit versions of knights, samurais and Vikings
against each other on battlefields.

"Ghost Recon: Wildlands" transports the
espionage franchise to a virtual rendition
of Bolivia. "Wildlands" marks the first time
the "Ghost Recon" series has been set in an
open world.

Ubisoft also brought star power to its Orpheum
Theatre stage presentation with Angela
Bassett unveiled as the new chief in "Tom
Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege" and Jason Derulo
performing "Want To Want Me." The pop star's
music will appear in the choreography game
"Just Dance 2016."

Other titles teased included the London-set
"Assassin's Creed: Syndicate" and multiplayer
action title "Tom Clancy's The Division."

Online: https://www.ubisoft.com

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SONY'S 'UNCHARTED 4/ 'LAST
GUARDIAN' CAPTURE E3 ATTENTION

Nathan Drake is back in action.

Sony capped off its game-filled Electronic
Entertainment Expo briefing Monday night
with a bullet-riddled demonstration of
"Uncharted 4: A Thiefs End/' the forthcoming
action-adventure starring the charismatic
treasure hunter.

The preview showed Drake and mentor Victor
"Sully" Sullivan engaging in a firefight on foot
before evading enemies through city streets
in a jeep. However, gamers eager to play the
latest installment were told they'll have to
wait until 2016.

Sony kept most of the focus of its trade
show presentation on games coming to the
PlayStation 4 console, demonstrating such
titles on stage as the sci-fi exploration game
"No Man's Sky" and the impressionistic
platformer "The Last Guardian," a title that
was originally teased six years ago at E3 2009.

"I could not be happier standing here today,"
said Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony
Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios.
"You don't know how long I have waited for
this moment."

Sony spent much of its time in the E3 spotlight
promoting exclusive content coming to PS4s
for such games as the military shooter sequel
"Call of Duty: Black Ops 3," Caped Crusader
saga "Batman: Arkham Knight," Victorian-era
stealth game "Assassin's Creed: Syndicate" and
sci-fi shooter "Destiny."

Alex Evans, co-founder of "LittleBigPlanet"
developer Media Molecule, announced
his newest creation: "Dreams," a trippy
puppeteering game where users three-
dimensionally draw characters and props
together.

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"In 2015, everything is a remix," said Media
Molecule co-founder Alex Evans.

Other games hyped Monday included a new
rendition of "Hitman," quirky first-person
exploration game "Firewatch," warrior-versus-
robots romp "Horizon: Zero Dawn" and a high-
definition remake of "Final Fantasy VII."

Yu Suzuki, the director of the beloved
"Shenmue" series, came on stage to petition
gamers to crowd-fund a "Shenmue 3" nearly
15 years after open-world "Shenmue 2" was
released.

Project Morpheus, Sony's virtual reality
headset that works in concert with the
PS4, was only briefly mentioned during the
presentation. The gaming and electronics
giant previously announced the VR system
would be out in spring 2016 but hasn't
specified a price.

Andrew House, president and CEO of Sony
Computer Entertainment, said a multiplayer
arena battle game for Morpheus called "Rigs"
would be available for attendees to try this
week on the floor of the E3 show at the Los
Angeles Convention Center.

"It's e-sports, Morpheus-style," House said.

Beyond games, Sony declared it was
expanding its PlayStation Vue online TV
service to Los Angeles and San Francisco
on Monday night, broadening availability
from when it launched in March in New
York, Chicago and Philadelphia. The cable
alternative, starting at $50 a month, includes
local TV stations affiliated with CBS, NBC, Fox,
and pay TV channels such as AMC, Bravo, CNN
and Comedy Central. The service is available
on PS4 and PlayStation 3 consoles.

Online:

http://www.playstation.com

ANGELA BASSETT TALKS PLAYING BOSS
IN ^RAINBOW SIX' GAME

Angela Bassett is taking on the mantle of "Six/'
the codename for the leader of the elite counter-
terrorism group depicted in the video game series
"Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six."

Bassett was unveiled Monday during a Ubisoft
news conference at E3 as the latest "Six" in the
upcoming "Rainbow Six: Siege" installment of
the publisher's long-running shooter series. The
character has always been portrayed as male in
past "Rainbow Six" games, as well as in Clancy's
original novel.

"We've known for quite some time we've been
looking to cast a female actress for 'Six' this
time around," said "Rainbow Six" animation
director Scott Mitchell. "Angela Bassett was one
of our top choices from the beginning. We were
looking for someone who could deliver a strong,
commanding performance."

In the game, players will portray one of several
international operators under the command of
Bassett's character, akin to "M" in the James Bond
franchise. It's a formidable position that's not
entirely foreign to the veteran actress. On film,
Bassett has played the head of the Secret Service
in "Olympus Has Fallen," a CIA chief in "This
Means War" and an ambassador in "Survivor."

However, the technical requirements for
capturing Bassett's virtual performance for
"Rainbow Six: Siege," were all new to the
"American Horror Story" star. She donned a
motion-capture suit and performed within
a high-tech sphere comprising hundreds of
cameras focused on her facial experiences.

"It was a layering technique, which is very
different from film, but it was very, very
interesting," Bassett said.

Ahead of her E3 debut, Bassett spoke with
AppleMagazine about her part in the game, which
is set for release Oct. 13:

AM: Why were you interested in this role?

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Bassett: I don't have much experience with
video games, especially not at this high
level. Whenever I get an opportunity to go
in another direction, I do. Tm very aware of
media and women in the media and the way
we come across. I thought this would be a
very strong look, as a woman and as a black
woman. For myself, it's a way to keep current.

I just wanted to have an opportunity to be
part of something like that.

AM: Were you aware of the many criticisms
how women and African-Americans are
portrayed in games?

Bassett: I wasn't at first. I have a cousin who
is very much into this world. He told me this
would be a big, big, big deal. I said, "Really?"

There have been opportunities in film where
the part was a male, and they've changed
it for me, and I've been able to bring it to
life. I've always liked that. This was another

opportunity to do that. To hear that in this I

world, women are not usually in this role, that

AM: How did you interpret the role of the
deputy director of Team Rainbow?

Bassett: IVe often played that sort of character
- the boss, the head, the one in charge. Tve
done it in various movies. In that respect, it
was familiar to me, but the world of games,
how they put it all together, that was a totally
different and exciting to me. I was like a kid on
the first day of school. I had lots of questions.

AM: What did you think when you saw your
character? The resemblance is uncanny.

Bassett: I was amazed. It looks dead on. I
knew exactly each step I went through, so it's
interesting to see that's what they came up
with. I hope movies don't go this way. I like
interacting with people.

AM: What's your personal experience with
games? You said you aren't that familiar, but did
you at least play "Pac-Man" back in the day?

Bassett: I did! I did play "Pac-Man," which I guess
is like Tic-Tac-Toe compared to "Rainbow Six."

Online: http://rainbow6.ubi.com

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E3 BUZZ: WOMEN TRIUMPH, KINECT
VANISHES AT E3

Seen and heard as the annual Electronic
Entertainment Expo gears up for its three-day
run at the Los Angeles Convention Center:

For the longest time, Lara Croft of "Tomb
Raider" was the biggest female star in video
games - mainly because she didn't have much
competition.

Things are changing, though, with game
companies finally waking up to the realization
that women make up nearly half of their
audience. So at this year's E3, we're seeing
more heroines like Emily Kaldwin, the assassin
in Bethesda Softworks' "Dishonored 2."
Microsoft's "Beyond Eyes" tells the tale of Rae,
a blind girl whose other senses are enhanced.
Sony's "Horizon: Zero Dawn" features a female
hunter on a planet where mechanical dinosaurs
run rampant.

Meanwhile, EA Sports' "FIFA 16" brings
women's teams to the soccer pitch. Rooftop-
running athlete Faith makes her long-awaited
return in Electronic Arts' "Mirror's Edge
Catalyst." And, of course, Lara herself is back in
Square Enix's "Rise of the Tomb Raider."

There are also games like Bethesda's "Fallout 4,"
EA's "Mass Effect: Andromeda" and Ubisoft's
"Assassin's Creed: Syndicate" that let you play
as either a man or a woman. And even ultra-
macho military franchises like "Halo" and "Gears
of War" include female warriors in their squads.

Also encouraging: More women have appeared
this year on the E3 stages where companies are
showcasing their new games. "Mirror's Edge,"
EA's "Star Wars: Battlefront" and Ubisoft's
"Rainbow Six: Siege" were just a few of the high-
profile titles presented by female developers. As
"Beyond Eyes" director Sherida Halatoe put it,

"If we open ourselves up to new experiences, it
can be a beautiful world."

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Five years ago, Microsoft introduced its Kinect
motion control device with a flamboyant E3
extravaganza starring Cirque du Soleil.

This year? Kinect didn't even merit a mention
at Microsoft's Xbox show. One presenter
blurted a Kinect voice command, but the
device itself doesn't even appear in most
pictures of the Xbox One.

Sony, which has put far less emphasis on
its PlayStation Move doodad, didn't bother
mentioning during its presentation. At
least Nintendo's Wii U still incorporates the
gimmick, last time we checked.

So what's taking motion control's place?
"Virtual reality," with both companies
promising immersion in three-dimensional
worlds via wraparound headsets. Microsoft's
has adopted the Oculus Rift for use with the
Xbox One and PCs; Sony has its own Project
Morpheus.

Can virtual reality thrive where motion control
stumbled? We'll check back in 2020.

Celebrities, no matter how much we love
them, don't thrive during E3 presentations.
The attendees are there for computer-
generated spectacle, not to watch Kobe
Bryant fumble with video-game controls (as
he did in 2011).

So even an undisputed legend like Pele, who
appeared this year to promote "FIFA 16," can
bring the show to a screeching halt. Jason
Derulo may be a chart-topper, but he wins this
year's Flo Rida Memorial Trophy for Awkward
Performance promoting Ubisoft's "Just
Dance." Neither was greeted with the kind
of applause that was received by video game
designer Fumito Ueda, creator of the cult
classics "Ico" and "Shadow of the Colossus,"
and the new "The Last Guardian."

But then we have Matt Stone and Trey
Parker, the brains behind "South Park." They

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surprised the Ubisoft audience with a trailer
for the forthcoming "South Park: The Fractured
but Whole/' then treated us to a profanity-filled
Q&A with host Aisha Tyler. Stone acknowledged
saying they'd never make another game after
last year's "The Stick of Truth," but joked that
they'd just figured out what they were doing by
the end of that game's development and didn't
want to let it go to waste.

He expressed all that in words I can't repeat in
an AP story. That's knowing your audience.

Buzziest game announcements of the pre-E3
showcases:

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Bethesda's postapocalyptic role-playing epic
Fallout 4/'

- Sony's boy-meets-monster love story "The Last
Guardian."

- EA's parkour-happy "Mirror's Edge Catalyst."

- Sony's "Dreams," a freaky dive into the
unconscious mind for the creators of
"LittleBigPlanet."

- Ubisoft's "South Park: The Fractured but
Whole," in which the boys become superheroes

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Bethesda jump started the Electronic
Entertainment Expo by showing off the latest
installments of "Fallout" and "Doom "

The video game publisher launched this year's
annual video game extravaganza Sunday night
with its first-ever E3 press conference at the
Dolby Theatre.

Bethesda Softworks spent most of its
90-minute briefing showcasing scenes from
both a new edition of the hellish first-person
shooter "Doom" and the post-apocalyptic role-
playing saga "Fallout 4."

"I think we can all agree that tonight starts a
week with E3 that is the world's best week
of entertainment ever," said Bethesda Game
Studios director Todd Howard.

Howard went on to detail how the character
creation, settlement construction and combat
systems work in "Fallout 4" amid the game's
virtual rendition of Boston plagued by a nuclear
attack. He announced "Fallout 4" would be
released Nov. 10.

In addition to "Fallout 4," Howard said a mobile
simulator game called "Fallout Shelter" would
debut immediately following the conference,
and a companion app that mimics the game's
Pip-Boy doodad on smartphones would come
out alongside "Fallout 4" this fall.

"Yes, it's a second-screen experience," said
Howard. "Usually, I find second-screen
experiences are generally just stupid gimmicks,
but as far as stupid gimmicks go, it's the best
(expletive) one."

The briefing began with id Software executive
producer Marty Stratton unearthing a new
"Doom," which is set to debut in spring 2016.
The demon-blasting action focused on shotgun
shooting and skull cracking on a pair of levels:

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one set on Mars, the other within Hell. Stratton
also outlined plans for players to be able to edit
and share their own "Doom" levels.

"We can't wait to see all the amazing things you
come up with next," Stratton told the crowd.

Bethesda also unveiled a follow-up to the
stealthy title "Dishonored," the strategy card
game "The Elder Scrolls: Legends," as well as
new content for the multiplayer battle game
"Battlecry" and the online role-playing game
"The Elder Scrolls Online."

E3 runs through Thursday at the Los Angeles
Convention Center.

Online: http://bethsoft.com

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YouTube is seeking to win over gamers.

The online video giant announced plans ahead
of next week's Electronic Entertainment Expo
to launch a separate app and site specifically for
fans of video games.

Ryan Wyatt, YouTube's global head of gaming
content, unveiled YouTube Gaming during an
event Friday at YouTube Space LA, one of the
site's production facilities. He said YouTube
Gaming will be a destination for users to
find gaming videos, live streams and Internet
personalities.

"Despite the crazy usage that gaming drives
on YouTube, we've never really built gamers
the experience that they deserve," said Wyatt.
"That's something that changes today."

The app and site, which is scheduled to debut
in the U.S. and U.K. later this summer, will
feature individual pages dedicated to more
than 25,000 games.

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demonstrated that if a user began searching for
the word "call" on the YouTube Gaming app, the
military shooter "Call of Duty/' not the Carly Rae
Jepsen tune "Call Me Maybe" would appear first.

YouTube is also seeking to make it easier for
users to broadcast live and competitive gaming,
known as e-sports, by creating singular links that
can be shared, removing the need to schedule a
broadcast and promoting live broadcasts.

"YouTube Gaming is built from the ground up
for gamers, by gamers," said Wyatt. "No longer
is gaming going to be lost in a sea of content.
We're unleashing a brand-new user experience
that puts games front and center. That includes
live gaming, as well."

The move by Google-owned YouTube takes
direct aim at Twitch, the gaming-centric
streaming video site acquired by Amazon
last year for nearly $1 billion. While YouTube
remains the dominant online video site. Twitch
has solidified itself over the past three years as
a destination to stream gameplay from such
titles as "League of Legends" and "Counter-
Strike: Global Offensive." Twitch now boasts
100 million users who watch 1.5 million
broadcasters a month.

"We welcome new entrants into the growing list
of competitors," said Matthew DiPietro, Twitch's
vice president of marketing, in a statement.
"Gaming video is obviously a huge market that
others have their eye on. It inspires us to work
even harder to make the community proud."

YouTube Gaming will be previewed at YouTube's
booth on the E3 show floor beginning Tuesday.

The announcement of YouTube's renewed focus
on gaming once again signals the importance
of online video on the eve of E3, the gaming
industry's annual trade show. While the
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PIXAR'S RETURN TO FORM

For many years since the release of its
groundbreaking feature length debut Toy
Story in 1995, Pixar was an animation studio
synonymous with quality. It still is, of course;
however, the slightly stumbling critical and
commercial performances of recent features,
including Cars 2 and Monsters University, had
led some to question whether Pixar's heyday
had come to a close. Judging from both the
concept and early reviews of the upcoming
Inside Out, released in the United States
on June 19, the studio has responded to its
doubters in spectacular style.

A GENUINELY ORIGINAL AND
CHALLENGING STORY

To call the idea behind Inside Out original
would be putting it... mildly. Pete Docter,
the film's director who initially put the
premise to Walt Disney Pictures, admitted
at the SIGGRAPH convention two years
ago that the story was "one of the most
challenging I've ever had to put together",
as the narrative simultaneously follows both
the lead character, a young Minneapolis
girl called Riley, and anthropomorphized
emotions, including Joy, Fear and Anger,
inside her mind.

The storytells of 11-year-old Riley's distress
after she has to move away with her mum
and dad from Minnesota to San Francisco.
This leads Fear, voiced by former Saturday
Night Live regular Bill Hader, Anger, brought
to vocal life by famously angry comedian
Lewis Black, and Disgust, voiced by The
Mindy Project creator Mindy Kaling, to run
riot in her mind.

Diane Lane voices Riley's mother, who is
eager to trace the source of her daughter's
upset, but her dad - step up. Blue Velvet star
Kyle McLachlan - proves no help. With this
story and cast, which also includes Parks and
Recreation lead Amy Poehler as Joy, Pixar has
set the stage for an excellent satire of the
human condition.

Image: Disney/Pixar

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YET MORE CHANGES OF DIRECTION
FOR PIXAR

Pixar has certainly proved nnany times before
that it is not averse to breaking new ground.
Only three years ago, it released its first
movie with a female lead. Brave. Meanwhile,
other recent hits like WALL-E and Up have
defied easy categorization. However, recent
announcements of sequels to many of
the studio's familiar successes, including
yet more additions to the Toy Story and
Cars franchises, have led some to wonder
whether Pixar is increasingly putting business
concerns ahead of artistic credibility.

It looks like Inside Out will put many
of those concerns to rest. Incidentally,
Docter was the director behind 2009's
Up, which achieved the rare feat of being
both wonderfully unorthodox and a major
commercial success. Let's put it this way:
"old man and young boy have adventure in
a house flown by balloons" might suffice as
a basic synopsis, but it hardly captures the
true extent of the heart, soul and intelligent
characterization that were poured into that
film. The success of Up led Pixar to permit
Docter more creative freedom with his
next feature.

Inside Out is Pixar's first movie that has not
included any involvement by the studio's
former CEO - and former Apple CEO - Steve
Jobs. Indeed, the movie was first announced
in August 2011, only one month before Jobs'
death, but the innovative concept, which
Disney and Pixar executives acknowledged
inevitable difficulties of marketing, is

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reminiscent of Jobs' own influence on Apple
and its revolutionary products.

There was also little input from John Lasseter,
the legendary animator and Pixar's chief
creative officer, largely as his attentions were
on restructuring Walt Disney Animation
Studios in Los Angeles during the film's
production. Still, the movie looks set to return
Pixar to the kind of popularity that it enjoyed
following the release of the original Toy Story,
which Lasseter directed.

REDEFINING THE TERM 'POSITIVE
REVIEW

There are some movies that get spoken about
in warm terms by the critics, and then there's
that exceptionally rare beast that scores
a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the
website's 'critics consensus' having described
Inside Out as "inventive, gorgeously animated,
and powerfully moving" and "another
outstanding addition to the Pixar library of
modern animated classics."

Where do we start with citing some of the
universally warm reaction? Well, we could
always focus on the review by Indiewire's
Eric Kohn. While he said that the studio
that had once been "an ever-reliable
source of sneakily mature dramas in kid-
friendly cartoon guise" had "stumbled in
recent years", it had managed "an overdue
bounceback with Inside Out, the most

imaginative example of world-building
since Docter's own Monsters, Inc."

Kohn continued: "It goes without saying
that Inside Out looks magnificent at every
turn, from the bright, storybook colors of
Riley's mind to the credible design of human
expressions. But the movie truly engages by
holding fast to its allegorical ramifications.
Each plot development invites scrutiny for its
symbolism: Yes, it's a vibrant, witty adventure,
but what's really going on here?"

It's hard to imagine how any reviewer could
have been more positive than that, but if
anything. Screen Crush writer Matt Singer
goes even further, hailing Inside Out as
not "just a return to form", but also "from
start to finish, one of Pixar's best films." He
reserved no shortage of praise for Docter,
pointing out that this was the man who had
not only directed Monsters, Inc. and Up, but
also co-written Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and
WALL-E, making him potentially "Pixar's most
unappreciated genius."

NOT NECESSARILY NUMBER ONE AT
THE BOX OFFICE, HOWEVER

With all of the critics' words suggesting
that there has been no Pixar movie on
a par with Inside Out for innovation
and quality since 2010's Toy Story 3 - or
possibly for even longer than that - it goes
without saying that it's a flick destined
for the box office top spot, right? Well,
surprisingly enough, the answer to that
one could just be "no".

It's not as if Pixar is out of practice when it
comes to this kind of thing - after all, the
studio's animated features have opened
at number one at the box office on 15
previous occasions. But Inside Out looks
set to buck that particular trend, despite
analysts reckoning that it'll muster a very
respectable $60 million in takings on its
opening weekend.

That's because this weekend also just
happens to the second for the dinosaur
juggernaut Jurassic World, which - after its
record-shattering $208 million three-day
debut - is set to bank another $100 million
this coming Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
It's an unfamiliar position for Pixar to be
in of its latest big animated feature not
being favorite at the box office. But it at
least doesn't need to worry about another
Friday debut - the Sundance hit Dope -
challenging it for the runner-up spot, that
film's distributor Open Road Films having
signaled that it would be content with a
mere $10 million.

In any case, they don't seem too
concerned about all of this at Pixar's
parent company Disney, where
distribution chief Dave Hollis has
commented; "Finishing first or second is
not what matters most to us. This movie
really is special and it's about delivering it
to the very faithful fans of this brand."

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ALL OF THE IMPORTANT SIGNS ARE
STRONG

It is hard to think of any animated movie
for which all of the vital signs have been so
strong. Even if Pixar will be forced to accept a
rare second place at the box office for Inside
Out, there's no doubt that it has an instant
classic on its hands, a movie that is sure to be
as treasured in the popular memory as any
Toy Story film.

The critics are obviously sold, and we're
sure that you and your kids will be, too, as
Pixar continues to demonstrate its knack for
animated movies of almost equal appeal to
adults and children, amounting to so much
more than meets the eye. ■

by Benjamin Kerry & Gavin Lenaghan

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CARRIE
UNDERWOOD HITS
HER STRIDE AT CMA
MUSIC E ESTIVAL

Carrie Underwood remennbers when she first
performed to thousands of country fans at the
coveted Country Music Association's Music
Festival in Nashville, Tennessee.

It was June 2005, which is exactly 10 years ago
this month.

Fresh off an "American Idol" win, Underwood
said her first big Nashville stage show was a
madhouse. "It was a chaotic, with cameras
flashing and a gazillion fans," Underwood said.

But her main worry was remembering the words
to the song she was performing onstage.

"I was singing with Phil Vassar, a song I did not
know," Underwood said. "I was like, 'Oh Lord,
don't let me screw up the words.' We somehow
pulled it off OK."

Now a decade later, Underwood has seven
Grammy Awards and a handful of No. 1 singles
on the country charts under her belt.

She's a wife, a new mom, and a bona fide
super star.

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Underwood said her pregnancy allowed her to
slow down and focus on new music instead
of touring.

"I spent a lot of time writing and listening to new
songs/' Underwood said. "I feel like now we're on
the right track and in a really good place."

Before her sold-out performance at the 2015
CM A Music Festival Saturday night, Underwood
admitted she was a bit nervous. It was her first
big stadium show since giving birth to her son,
Isaiah, back in February.

But when she hit the stage with her hit "Blown
Away," there was no sign of nerves. Strutting
in her bejeweled hot-pants and matching vest,
Underwood brought her fans at LP Field to
their feet, even asking them to get sassy before
jumping into the song, "Undo It."

Underwood slowed things down but still held the
crowd's attention with the emotional "Something
in the Water," off last year's "Greatest Hits:

Decade (hash)l" release. She ended her seven-
song set by bringing down the house with a
resounding, "Before He Cheats."

In the crowd, and on their feet, were three-
generations of Underwood fans. Jessica Gallegos,
her mother and daughter drove to Nashville from
Murphysboro, Illinois. Gallegos, who's been to
every CM A show for the past 10 years, met a very
nervous Underwood back in 2005 at a
fan function.

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"She was so nice and down to earth/' Gallegos
said. "I knew she was going to grow and be
fantastic when I first saw her on 'Idol.'"

What's next? Underwood said for this next
chapter in her life anything is possible.

"I don't know what to expect for the next 10
years. As long as I enjoy what I'm doing, I call that
winning," Underwood said. "I will go where the
road takes me."

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who duly seeks the advice of a wisecracking
jock neighbor, Wes (Robbie Amell) on how to
make her DUFF-ness a thing of the past.

FIVE FACTS:

1 . This teen comedy is directed by Ari Sandel.

2. It stars Bella Thorne, Blanca A. Santos and
Skyler Samuels alongside Whitman and Amell

3. The movie is based on Kody Keplinger's
novel of the same name.

4. Principal photography took place in
June and July 2014.

5. David Lewis of the San Francisco
Chronicle said that the film "has heart,
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English rock band Muse's seventh studio
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human's journey from abandonment and
hopelessness, through to their indoctrination
as a human drone and eventual defection
from their oppressors. Many fans, however,
will be more interested by the band's return
to their earlier simpler guitar-bass-drums rock
sound.

FIVE FACTS:

1 . Frontman Matt Bellamy has described the
album's concept as "a modern metaphor
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control, at a great distance, without actually
feeling any of the consequences, or even
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Q&A: NET
NEUTRALITY RULES
GO INTO EEFECT

New rules that treat the Internet like a public
utility and prohibit blocking, slowing and
creating paid fast lanes for online traffic took
effect Friday.

Cable and telecom industry groups have sued
to have the rules thrown out, arguing they
are too onerous. But on Thursday, a federal
appeals court declined to block the rules from
taking effect as the industry litigation against
them proceeds. A court could still eventually
overturn the rules.

There will be no immediate effect on how
consumers and companies use the Internet.
Broadband providers today typically treat
content from different websites and services
equally.

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"We had the Internet for some time obeying
such principles but they've never been
codified. Now they have been codified/' said
Nicholas Economides, a professor at New
York University's Stern business school and an
expert on networks and telecommunications.
"Consumers should not see any substantial
difference."

Regulators, consumer advocates and Internet
companies like video site Vimeo and crafts
marketplace Etsy had concerns about Internet
providers' power over Web traffic. For
example, there were worries that being able
to pay for a special Internet fast lane would let
richer companies more easily reach users and
stifle the growth of newer, poorer startups.

What is new: The Federal Communications
Commission will be able to investigate
complaints about "unreasonable" business
practices by Internet providers that aren't
explicitly banned. Many broadband companies
say this invites uncertainty - they don't know
what's allowed.

Here's a look at what the developments mean
for consumers and companies:

WHAT IS NET NEUTRALITY, AND WHAT
ARE THE NEW RULES?

So-called net neutrality is the principle
that Internet providers treat all Web traffic
equally, and it's how the Internet works today.
The FCC enacted rules that protect that, to
make sure cable and phone companies don't
manipulate traffic: They can't create special
fast lanes for some content, like video from
YouTube, or intentionally block or slow Web
traffic. Many Internet providers say they don't
plan to do those things, but the FCC worried
that they could.

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WHATS CHANGING FOR CONSUMERS?

In enacting its rules, the FCC placed Internet
service in the same regulatory camp as
telephone service. That means providers have
to act in the "public interest" when supplying
Internet service and refrain from "unjust or
unreasonable" business practices. The FCC can
investigate complaints about industry practices
that might violate net-neutrality principles,
even if they're not specifically prohibited by
the rules. Complaints can be filed here: https://
consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/.

WHAT ABOUT FOR COMPANIES?

Internet companies Netflix and companies
that manage Internet traffic, like Cogent,
can also complain to the FCC about
"unreasonable" behavior by broadband
providers over network-connection deals in
the backbone of the Internet.

Companies could complain that broadband
providers are charging them too much to
connect to their networks, for example.

Fights over these arrangements had in the
past led to a slowdown in Netflix streaming
speeds for customers of several major Internet
service providers.

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WHICH COMPANIES ARE AFFECTED?

Cable companies like Comcast, phone
companies that provide Internet service to
people's homes and smartphones, like AT&T
and Verizon, and cellphone companies like
Sprint.

WHY IS THE INDUSTRY OPPOSED?

Companies say they don't want the stricter
regulation that comes with the net neutrality
rules. They say the regulations will undermine
investment in broadband, and that it's not clear
what is and isn't allowed under the greater
authority the FCC has to investigate unspecified
complaints.

They are also concerned about price regulation.
The FCC says it won't preapprove the prices
companies set for Internet access. But
consumers can complain about the cost of their
service and the government can look into it
under the new rules.

CROWDS, MUSIC,
FLOATS FOR NYC'S
PUERTO RICAN
DAY PARADE

Entertainer Rita Moreno took Roman Catholic
Cardinal Timothy Dolan for a dancing spin in front
of St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue during
the Puerto Rican Day Parade.

At 83, Moreno was the grand marshal of Sunday's
festivities, which turned more than 1 million
spectators into a sea of red, white and blue.
They're the colors of the Puerto Rican flag, also
splashed across 20,000 marchers who moved up
the avenue from 44th Street to 79th Street.

At the front was Puerto Rico's governor, Alejandro
Garcia Padilla, followed by New York City Council
Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, a Puerto
Rico native.

She danced to Latino rhythms that were the
pounding soundtrack of the 58th annual parade.
The decibel level hit fever pitch with handheld
horns and whistles from the sidelines.

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OFFICIALS SAY DEEPLY PERSONAL
INEORMATION IN HACKERS' HANDS

Deeply personal information submitted by U.S.
intelligence and military personnel for security
clearances - mental illnesses, drug and alcohol
use, past arrests, bankruptcies and more - is in
the hands of hackers linked to China, officials say.

In describing a cyberbreach of federal records
dramatically worse than first acknowledged,
authorities point to Standard Form 86, which
applicants are required to complete. Applicants
also must list contacts and relatives, potentially
exposing any foreign relatives of U.S. intelligence
employees to coercion. Both the applicant's
Social Security number and that of his or her
cohabitant are required.

In a statement, the White House said that on
June 8, investigators concluded there was "a high
degree of confidence that ... systems containing
information related to the background
investigations of current, former and prospective
federal government employees, and those for
whom a federal background investigation was
conducted, may have been exfiltrated."

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"This tells the Chinese the identities of almost
everybody who has got a United States security
clearance " said Joel Brenner, a former top U.S.
counterintelligence official. "That makes it very
hard for any of those people to function as an
intelligence officer. The database also tells the
Chinese an enormous amount of information
about almost everyone with a security clearance.
That's a gold mine. It helps you approach and
recruit spies."

The Office of Personnel Management, which
was the target of the hack, did not respond to
requests for comment. 0PM spokesman Samuel
Schumach and Jackie Koszczuk, the director
of communications, have consistently said
there was no evidence that security clearance
information had been compromised.

The White House statement said the hack
into the security clearance database was
separate from the breach of federal personnel
data announced last week - a breach that is
itself appearing far worse than first believed.

It could not be learned whether the security
database breach happened when an 0PM
contractor was hacked in 2013, an attack that
was discovered last year. Members of Congress
received classified briefings about that breach in
September, but there was no public mention of
security clearance information being exposed.

Nearly all of the millions of security clearance
holders, including some CIA, National Security
Agency and military special operations
personnel, are potentially exposed in the
security clearance breach, the officials said. More
than 4 million people had been investigated for a
security clearance as of October 2014, according
to government records.

Regarding the hack of standard personnel
records announced last week, two people
briefed on the investigation disclosed Friday
that as many as 14 million current and former
civilian U.S. government employees have had

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their information exposed to hackers, a far
higher figure than the 4 million the Obama
administration initially disclosed.

American officials have said that cybertheft
originated in China and that they suspect
espionage by the Chinese government, which
has denied any involvement.

The newer estimate puts the number of
compromised records between 9 million and
14 million going back to the 1980s, said one
congressional official and one former U.S.
official, who spoke to The Associated Press on
condition of anonymity because information
disclosed in the confidential briefings includes
classified details of the investigation.

There are about 2.6 million executive branch
civilians, so the majority of the records exposed
relate to former employees. Contractor
information also has been stolen, officials said.
The data in the hack revealed last week include
the records of most federal civilian employees,
though not members of Congress and their
staffs, members of the military or staff of the
intelligence agencies.

On Thursday, a major union said it believes the
hackers stole Social Security numbers, military
records and veterans' status information,
addresses, birth dates, job and pay histories;
health insurance, life insurance and pension
information; and age, gender and race data.

The personnel records would provide a foreign
government an extraordinary roadmap to
blackmail, impersonate or otherwise exploit
federal employees in an effort to gain access
to U.S. secrets -or entry into government
computer networks.

Outside experts were pointing to the
breaches as a blistering indictment of the U.S.
government's ability to secure its own data
two years after a National Security Agency
contractor, Edward Snowden, was able to

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steal tens of thousands of the agency's most
sensitive documents.

After the Snowden revelations about
government surveillance, it became more
difficult for the federal government to hire
talented younger people into sensitive jobs,
particularly at intelligence agencies, said Evan
Lesser, managing director of ClearanceJobs.
com, a website that matches security-clearance
holders to available slots.

"Now, if you get a job with the government,
your own personal information may not be
secure," he said. "This is going to multiply the
government's hiring problems many times."

The Social Security numbers were not
encrypted, the American Federation of
Government Employees said, calling that "an
abysmal failure on the part of the agency to
guard data that has been entrusted to it by the
federal workforce."

"Unencrypted information of this kind this is
disgraceful - it really is disgraceful," Brenner said.
"We've had wakeup calls now for 20 years or
more, and we keep hitting the snooze button."

The OPM's Schumach would not address how
the data was protected or specifics of the
information that might have been compromised,
but said, "Today's adversaries are sophisticated
enough that encryption alone does not
guarantee protection." 0PM is nonetheless
increasing its use of encryption, he said.

The Obama administration had acknowledged
that up to 4.2 million current and former
employees whose information resides in the
Office of Personnel Management server are
affected by the December cyberbreach, but it
had been vague about exactly what was taken.

J. David Cox, president of the American
Federation of Government Employees, said in
a letter Thursday to 0PM director Katherine
Archuleta that based on incomplete information

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0PM provided to the union, "the hackers are
now in possession of all personnel data for
every federal employee, every federal retiree
and up to 1 million former federal employees "

Another federal employee group, the National
Active and Retired Federal Employees
Association, said Friday that "at this point, we
believe AFGE's assessment of the breach is
overstated." It called on the 0PM to provide
more information.

Former Rep. Mike Rogers, one-time chairman
of the House Intelligence Committee, said
last week that he believes China will use the
recently stolen information for "the mother of
all spear-phishing attacks."

Spear-phishing is a technique under which
hackers send emails designed to appear
legitimate so that users open them and load
spyware onto their networks.

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TARAJI P. HENSON
ON 'EMPIRE' AND
ITS SUCCESSFUL

SEASON

Taraji P. Henson is on a mission: To take her
brand global following the success of Fox's hit
show "Empire" - and her breakout character
Cookie Lyon.

"I am tired of Hollywood telling me what
black people can't do overseas and what can't
sell overseas, and black women can't do this
overseas," Henson says. "Well, I am over there
and they know who I am; and they knew me
before Cookie."

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"Empire" debuted in January with 9.9 million
viewers and ended its first season run with
17.6 million viewers for the finale, the most
watched show that week, according to the
Nielsen ratings.

With Emmy nominations set for July 16,
the 44-year-old actress, who served as the
ambassador for the American Black Film
Festival that just completed its four-day run in
New York, says she isn't focused on awards.

"That's not my driving force. I respect the
awards and I am always honored when I am
recognized, but that's not really why I got
into the business," Henson says. "Art is very
powerful. It can touch and change lives, and
that's what I am about with my talent."

Henson recently talked with eNews Magazine
about "Empire" and the Texas law enforcement
officer who threw an unarmed teenage girl to
the ground.

eNews Magazine: What's the formula for
the success of "Empire" and how the show's
viewership continued to grow throughout
the season?

Henson: Networks started underestimating
the audience. They started believing that
appointment television was dead. But we
proved that if you give the audience good
content they will watch, and I think that is what
you are seeing. There's no special formula.
There is no magic trick that we did. We just
got an incredible cast, incredible writers; we
deal with very diverse subject matter, subject
matter that makes you think, that makes you
ruffle feathers.

eNews Magazine: How important is it
to address delicate subjects, such as
homosexuality in the African-American
community?

Henson: Well it's very important to talk about
any subject matter that deals with people not

being afraid of being who they are. When we
are born we do not get the luxury of saying,
'God I want white skin,' or 'I want to be
straight,' or 'I want to be a woman,' you just
get what you get, and your journey in life and
how you decide to walk through that journey
is what life is about and how you're going to
move and affect people through your story.

eNews Magazine: What can we expect for
next season?

Henson: They are going to deal with a lot of the
past, and this is something that I requested.
What happened with Cookie in the 17 years
she was locked away from her family? How did
Lucious become - some people want to call him
this monster - but people are the way they are
because of their circumstances and so we just
want to delve a little bit more into how these
people became who they are.

eNews Magazine: How do you feel about the
recent situation in McKinney, Texas, regarding
the white police officer who drew his gun on
unarmed African-American teens and threw a
15-year-old girl to the ground?

Henson: I think it is time for people to stop
being quiet about what's going on and stop
turning a blind eye to it. People of all color, if
you see an injustice happening, say something.
They always say it is not important until it
affects you, but I do not know what parent in
the world watched that video, I do not care
what color you are, and did not feel some
kind of way. Take race out of it. That's a girl,
that's a young woman in a bikini and that man
slammed her down; like she was no threat,
what was she doing? It's a big issue; we've
got to deal with this. I do not know if we are
becoming a police state. It's really scary.

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TWITTER'S TWISTS
AND TURNS _ CAN
IT KEEP FLYING

The Pope is on Twitter, along with the Dalai
Lama, world leaders and, of course, Kim
Kardashian.

The short-messaging service can bring fleeting
fame, instant ignominy and get you fired. It
has been credited for sparking revolutions and,
like Facebook, transforming the way the world
communicates.

But despite the buzz generated by thousands
of chatty journalists, athletes and celebrities,
Twitter has never turned a profit. Its user base
of 302 million is dwarfed by rivals such as
Facebook, which counts 1.44 billion.

Facebook has grown into an Internet
powerhouse, while Twitter in many aspects
remains a niche social network, unable to
convince the masses that they need its service to
keep up with what's happening in the world. Lots
of people sign up but not a lot stick around.

That likely had much to do with last week's
announced exit of Twitter Inc. CEO Dick Costolo,
who gave way to co-founder, and former CEO,

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Jack Dorsey while the San Francisco company
looks for a new leader.

Despite the executive turmoil and a stock
price that has fallen 30 percent since late April,
industry experts - not to mention loyal users -
see potential in the company.

But first it needs to address some of its biggest
problems. Here are some of Twitter's most
pressing challenges, along with possible fixes.

WHERE ARE THE USERS

Its user growth is stalling and there are a lot
of competitors. Besides its old rival Facebook,
Twitter is feeling the heat from mobile
messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Line and
Viber, not to mention Snapchat, Instagram
and a bevy of others only your cool middle-
school niece might have heard of. Twitter
grew from 204 million active users in the first
quarter of 2013, to 255 million a year later and
302 million in the first three months of 2015.

In comparison, Facebook-owned WhatsApp
announced in April that it has reached 800
million monthly active users.

MAKE IT EASIER TO USE

Almost one billion users have tried Twitter and
not stuck around, according to tech investor
Chris Sacca, a longtime Twitter backer who
wrote a lengthy critique of the service and
posted it online this month. Sacca suggested
the service could offer more features to
engage visitors - including special channels or
tabs focused on live events, topics of interest
or even a user's geographic location. He
also recommended more nudges, including
feedback, polls and other interactive features
that would make newcomers feel less lonely.

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DEAL WITH TROLLS

Twitter has long had a problem with trolls, the
online bullies and blowhards whose abuse
has been an ongoing issue that has alienated
established and potential users. It has tried to
make it easier to report threats and in April
updated its policy against violent threats to
include not just specific threats but people
promoting violence against others. It's too early
to say if this has helped.

MORE APRS AND OPTIONS

Twitter is well-known around the globe, but it
must do more to capitalize on its own brand,
said Brian Blau, a tech analyst at the Gartner
research firm. Twitter could be offering users
more specialized apps for various activities,
in the way that Facebook has built a stable
of apps for messaging, consuming news and
sharing photos, he said. Twitter's Periscope app,
which lets users share live video, is an example
of exactly the kind of thing Twitter should be
doing, Blau added. But he noted that Facebook,
Snapchat and other companies have invested
heavily in direct-messaging capabilities, which
can make money by showing ads, selling
animated adornments or enabling users to play
one-on-one games. Twitter, meanwhile, has
only tinkered around the edges of its direct-
messaging function.

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DEMONSTRATE STRENGTHS
TO ADVERTISERS

Twitter knows something about its users'
interests, but Facebook knows far more about
its users' likes and habits, while Google and
Pinterest can more readily predict what users
might want to buy. That, coupled with Twitter's
slowing user growth, has made advertisers
are more likely to spend their money on other
sites, analysts say. Twitter's strength, however,
is drawing people's attention during live events,
such as sports championships, breaking news
and popular television shows, said Debra Aho
Williamson at the eMarketer research firm.
Reaching casual users on a routine basis is
harder, but Twitter may succeed if it can engage
advertisers in that 'real-time' story, she said.

SHOW INVESTORS IT'S SERIOUS
ABOUT BUSINESS

The new CEO must show Wall Street that
Twitter is focused on building revenue and
delivering on financial targets, added Scott
Kessler, a tech stocks analyst at S&P Capital IQ.
Their single biggest shortcoming is really about
the ability to consistently communicate and
execute against their strategy, he said.

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1181

'THE ILLUSIONISTS' TO
REAPPEAR LIKE MAGIC
ON BROADWAY AGAIN

The magic super group "The Illusionists" will -
poof! - reappear on Broadway this fall.

Producer Simon Painter said the new edition
of the touring show will include three new
magicians and ups "the ante in terms of
danger." It will play the Neil Simon Theatre
from Nov. 19-Jan. 3.

The lineup will include four returning
performers: "The Manipulator" Yu Ho-Jin,
named the 2014 Magician of the Year; campy
magician Jeff Hobson known as "The Trickster";
"The Anti-Conjurer" Dan Sperry, whose
macabre show often features spinning blades;
and Adam Trent, nicknamed "The Futurist,"
who focuses on technology-based illusions.

The three new performers are shadow
puppet and ventriloquist pro "The Unusualist"
Raymond Crowe, escape artist and knife
thrower "The Daredevil" Jonathan Goodwin,
and "The Deceptionist" James More, who does
death-defying illusions.

"There's something for everybody," said
Painter. "I think we have an incredibly well-
balanced show this year. Each person appeals
to a different kind of audience."

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Tickets go on sale June 29, although American
Express card members can buy them beginning
Tuesday.

Hobson, a card and comedy specialist from
Detroit, said he never imagined he'd end up
doing tricks on Broadway. "It was quite a slow
sinking in of, 'Oh my God! I think this is another
bucket list thing,"' he said.

Last year, when The Illusionists' "Witness the
Impossible" version came to New York, it was
the first time in almost 20 years that a magic
show played Broadway. Now, Penn & Teller
have also arrived.

Hobson said magic's profile - long saddled with
a stale, hocus-pocus image - has risen in the
past few years thanks to the Internet and TV
shows like "America's Got Talent."

"The public's going, 'Gosh, this is wonderful.

I didn't know how great and fun magic could
be.'" He said. "We're back in vogue again.
Magic's cool."

Painter said he hopes to make the show an
annual tradition, a sort of alternative holiday
programing for the whole family. "It's a magical
time of year," he said. "It sounds so cliched and
cheesy but it's a time of year we just want to sit
back and be entertained."

During their last stint. The Illusionists took in
more than $8.1 million during their six-week
Broadway engagement and recouped in just
over three weeks, setting a new weekly gross
for the Marquis Theatre along the way.

"I think it's just great that there's magic back
on Broadway," said Painter, who is a Penn &
Teller fan. "It's great to know that the art form
is being pushed forward all the time."

Online: http://www.theillusionistslive.com

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5PACEX
ANNOUNCES
DESIGN
COMPETITION
FOR HYPERLOOP

Billionaire Elon Musk wants to jump-start his
Hyperloop high-speed transit system.

Musk's rocket-building company, SpaceX,
announced Monday that it plans to build a
1-mile test track next to its headquarters in the
Los Angeles suburb of Hawthorne and will hold
a competition there next year to test designs
for passenger-carrying Hyperloop pods.

It's the first time Musk's company has been
directly involved in the Hyperloop project,
although several private firms are pursuing
research.

Suggested by Musk two years ago, the idea is
to zoom passenger capsules through elevated
tubes between Los Angeles and San Francisco
at speeds of up to 750 mph. The concept
pulls together several proven technologies:
Capsules would float on a thin cushion of air
and draw on magnetic attraction and solar
power to zoom through a nearly airless tube.
With little wind resistance, the capsules could
reach the speed of sound and the 400-mile
ride would take a half-hour.

The competition aims to attract independent
and university engineering teams who will
design and test half-scale models of the pods.
The submission deadline is Sept. 15 and the
competition is roughly scheduled for next June.

Online forms for those intending to compete
are available at: http://www.Spacex.com/
hyperloop.

"While we are not developing a commercial
Hyperloop ourselves, we are interested
in helping to accelerate development of a
functional Hyperloop prototype," a statement
on the site read.

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of the prize. Full rules and other details will be
released in August.

Next January, entrants will meet for a design
weekend at Texas A&M University. The designs
will be presented before an evaluation panel
composed mainly of engineers from SpaceX
and Musk's luxury electric-car company, Tesla
Motors, and university professors.

Private companies will be able to use the
weekend to choose teams to sponsor and fund.

SpaceX said it also probably will build its own
pod for demonstration purposes but its team
won't be eligible to win the competition. The
company also will have the final say on who
actually gets to use the test track.

There's no word yet on the cost of that track.

Musk has suggested that building an actual
Hyperloop system would cost $6 billion,
although others suggest the figure will be
much higher.

One company researching the concept is
Hyperloop Technologies Inc., which has its
world headquarters in Los Angeles. That
company is working to raise $80 million
needed to build a 5-mile test track.

It'-s co-chaired by venture capitalist and Uber
underwriter Shervin Pishevar and former
PayPal COO David 0. Sacks.

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FDA TELLS
FOOD

INDUSTRY TO
PHASE OUT
ARTIFICIAL

The Obama administration is ordering food
companies to phase out the use of heart-clogging
trans fats over the next three years, calling them a
threat to public health.

The move will remove artificial trans fats from
the food supply almost entirely. Consumers
aren't likely to notice much of a difference in
their favorite foods, but the administration says
the move will reduce coronary heart disease and
prevent thousands of fatal heart attacks
every year.

Scientists say there are no health benefits to the
fats, which are used in processing food and in
restaurants, usually to improve texture, shelf life
or flavor. They can raise levels of "bad" cholesterol
and lower "good" cholesterol, increasing the risk
of heart disease, the leading cause of death in the
United States.

The fats are created when hydrogen is added to
vegetable oil to make it more solid, which is why
they are often called partially hydrogenated oils.

Once a staple of the American diet - think
shortening and microwave popcorn - most
artificial trans fats are already gone. The FDA says
that between 2003 and 2012, consumer trans fat
consumption decreased an estimated 78 percent
as food companies have used other kinds of oils
to replace them.

But some foods still have them, and the FDA says
those trans fats remaining in the food supply
are a threat to public health. Some of the foods
that commonly contain trans fats are pie crusts,
biscuits, microwave popcorn, coffee creamers,
frozen pizza, refrigerated dough, vegetable
shortenings and stick margarines.

To phase the fats out, the FDA made a preliminary
determination in 2013 that trans fats no longer
fall in the agency's "generally recognized as safe"
category, which covers thousands of additives
that manufacturers can add to foods without
FDA review. The agency made that decision final

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Tuesday, giving food companies the three years to
phase them out.

Now that trans fats will be off the list of safe
additives, any company that wants to use them
will have to petition the agency to allow it. That
would phase them out almost completely, since
not many uses are likely to be allowed.

Still, food companies are hoping for some
exceptions. The Grocery Manufacturers
Association, the main trade group for the food
industry, is working with companies on a petition
that would formally ask the FDA if it can say there
is a "reasonable certainty of no harm" from some
specific uses of the fats.

The group said in a statement after the
announcement that it is pleased with the FDA's
three-year compliance period, which "minimizes
unnecessary disruptions to commerce." The
group has not specified what the industry plans
to ask for, but has said the FDA encouraged food
companies to submit a petition.

Trans fats are widely considered the worst kind
for your heart, even worse than saturated fats,
which also can contribute to heart disease.

Over the years, they have been used in foods
like frostings, which need solid fat for texture,
or in those that need a longer shelf life or flavor
enhancement.

They also have been used by restaurants for
frying. Many larger chains have stopped using
them, but smaller restaurants may still get food
containing trans fats from suppliers.

The industry's reduction in trans fats was helped
along by FDA's decision to force labeling of trans
fats on food packages in 2006. But foods that list
trans fat content as zero can still have very small
amounts, since companies are allowed to round
less than half of a gram of trans fat to zero on
the package. The advocacy group Center for
Science in the Public Interest first petitioned

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FDA to ban trans fats 11 years ago. The group's
director, Michael Jacobson, says that getting rid
of the trans fats that are still out there could save
tens of thousands of lives on top of those that
have already been saved from reductions.

The decision to phase them out "is probably the
single most important thing the FDA has ever
done for the healthfulness of the food supply,"
Jacobson said.

Also contributing to the decline over the years are
local laws, like one in New York City that restricts
the fats in restaurants. Large retailers like Wal-
Mart have reduced the amount they sell.

The FDA has not targeted small amounts of trans
fats that occur naturally in some meat and dairy
products, because they would be too difficult
to remove and aren't considered a major public
health threat by themselves.

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REVIEW: GEEKS
GO GANGSTER
IN FRESH, LIVELY

"DOPE"

"Dope" hooks you fast and strong.

The coy over-the-top Sundance hit from writer-
director Rick Famuyiwa about a couple of geeks
who get entangled in gangster culture is a fresh
and slightly rebellious take on the series of
escalating events story

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Our hero, Malcolm (Shameik Moore), is
introduced in his senior year of high school. His
existence is curated to a stylist's perfection. He
and his friends Jib ("The Grand Budapest Hotel's"
lobby boy Tony Revolori) and Diggy (Kiersey
Clemons) like 1990s hip hop culture, play in a
3-person punk band, get good grades and stay
out of trouble.

They live in the Darby-Dixon neighborhood of the
gritty Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, or, "the
bottoms." To survive, they try to do their own
thing and avoid the bad eggs. Jib at one point
wishes idly that Waze was capable of identifying
bike routes home with no gang activity. Their
proximity to danger is more of a nuisance than
anything else - at least at the beginning.

The label and aesthetic obsessed Malcolm wants
to go to Harvard and he doesn't want to rely on
cliches, or doing what's expected to get there.
We're talking about his personal essay only here
- Malcolm did do expected things like, you know,
study. He doesn't, however, want to use his hard
knocks upbringing and single parent household to
inform his narrative. He'd rather write about Ice
Cube's Good Day.

If it all sounds kind of light, it is at first. But it's
hard to get a grasp on the tone, which transitions
rather violently across the nearly two-hour
runtime. One moment, everything is self-
referential and glib and sunny; the next, people
are actually getting mowed down with gunfire.

It's one of "Dope's" quirks that works only in the
strong first half - a near real time portrait of a kid
stepping out of his comfort zone and getting into
some actual trouble.

This section picks up when the charismatic dealer
Dorn {A$AP Rocky) injects himself into Malcolm's
life. Dom makes him play telephone to invite a
pretty, serious girl (Zoe Kravitz) to his birthday
party at a club. She says she'll only go if Malcolm
goes, too. He does, of course. What high school
male could resist?

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After a bit of fun and normal will-they-won't-
they high school drama, the club gets raided.

In the chaos, Dom hides his drugs and a gun in
Malcolm's backpack. These aren't discovered
until the next morning at school, after Dorn's
been arrested and Malcolm has done the
unthinkable: set off the metal detector.

In the vein of Martin Scorsese's "After Hours" or
Jonathan Demme's "Something Wild," the teens
are thrust into a wild world of dealers, thugs,
crooks and liars, as they try to figure out how to
get rid of the drugs and stay alive.

Malcolm talks a lot about not doing what's
expected of him - in this case, it means what's
expected of kids from a neighborhood like
his. The odd thing is that, at this point, what's
expected of him is exactly what allows him to
break bad rather easily. He uses the chemistry lab
to sort drugs. The computer lab is for the sales.
And the security guard lets him pass every time
his drug-sniffing mutt starts getting antsy and the
metal detector goes off.

"Dope" is intoxicatingly cinematic, whether
illustrating the vibrancy of the best dance party
you've ever been to, or hitting an unexpected
narrative pause to transition into a dreamy,
music-video like interlude.

And yet, enjoyable performances aside, the film
goes on far too long and the energy and vibrancy
of the first half dwindles as it transitions into a
drug dealing caper. Don't expect big ideas or even
satirical commentary here either. "Dope" is just a
fantastical, slight, and occasionally fun, hip hop-
scored romp.

"Dope," and Open Road Films release, is rated R
by the Motion Picture Association of America for
"language, drug content, sexuality/nudity, and
some violence-all involving teens." Running time:
115 minutes. Two and half stars out of four.

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210

FROM 'IDOL TO QUEEN,

LAMBERTSPANS
GENERATIONS OF EANS

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When it comes to spanning the generational
divide among music fans, Adam Lambert may
have figured it all out: write catchy, hook-laden
pop and dance tracks for the kids and sell
pricey concert tickets for one of the all-time
classic rock bands to their parents.

Fresh off a wildly successful world tour fronting
Queen, Lambert is back with his third studio
album, "The Original High," released Tuesday.

Its mix of dance club, pop and emotional ballads
couldn't be more different from the music he's
been performing for the past two years.

"I have a lot of different people that listen to my
music, and it's important to me to kind of bring
as many people together as I can," Lambert,

33, said in a recent interview. "Now, six years
into this part of my career, I think I know myself
better. I think I have a stronger idea of my artistic
identity and who my fans are."

"Working with Queen was definitely a
balancing act of trying to honor the original
recordings as much as I possibly could, while
still injecting myself into them," he added.

"With this project, it's my name on the project."

Lambert burst onto the scene in 2009,
auditioning for "American Idol" with an a
cappella version of Queen's "Bohemian
Rhapsody." He made it to the finale, finishing
second to Kris Allen. His first studio album,

"For Your Entertainment," spawned the Top
10 hit "Whataya Want From Me," which also
earned Lambert a Grammy nomination. But
his sophomore album, 2012's "Trespassing,"
failed to catch fire commercially, despite
debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums
chart. Whether Lambert will tour to support
"The Original High" depends in large part on
whether radio embraces the album and its first
single, "Ghost Town."

"The record has to have a certain amount
of life before you can fund a tour and be

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sure that you're going to sell seats, which is
unfortunately why I was unable to tour with
my last album," he said. "On the commercial
side of things, radio is still a huge tool in how
you get an album out there, and unfortunately
('Trespassing') didn't quite connect with radio,
so its legs were a bit cut off."

The new album, which features production
from pop prodigy Max Martin and a
collaboration with Queen guitarist Brian May,
also marks a departure for Lambert, who is
now signed to Warner Bros. Records after
leaving Sony's RCA Records, his home label
immediately following "Idol." Despite finding
a new home, Lambert said "Idol" - which
launches its final season next year on Fox - is
one he's grateful for.

"I really owe that show a huge debt of
gratitude," he said. "That show put me on the
map, gave me this amazing opportunity and
this platform to show what I can do, connected
me with all these amazing fans, and changed
my whole life."

He's also thankful for Queen. Lambert says he
and the group may tour again, but probably
won't record new music together.

"As I'm getting older, the simple things have
gotten more important to me. Simply being
happy, that's really important," he said. "I still
keep in mind, 'What do they want to hear?'

But now I'm starting to say, 'What's going to
make me happy when I sing it?"'

Online:

http://www.adamofficial.com

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MINDY KALING TALKS
PERSONALITY, PIXAR,

MINDY PROJECT' MOVE

Mindy Kaling agreed to voice a character in
Pixar's latest film based on nothing more than
an illustration. But she didn't even need that.

"They literally could have shown me nothing/'
said Kaling, who plays a green, fluttery-lashed
girl named Disgust in the new film "Inside Out."
She heard the word "Pixar," and she was in.

The much-anticipated film explores the action
inside 11-year-old Riley's head, where Kaling's
character and other emotions - Fear (Bill Hader),
Anger (Lewis Black), Sadness (Phyllis Smith)
and Joy (Amy Poehler) - control operations.

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Joy generally reigns, keeping Riley happy, but
things go amiss when her family moves from
Minnesota to San Francisco.Riley's team of
emotions are thrown out of balance, and they
have to work together to set things right.

Riley's personality is represented by "islands"
comprising the things most important to her,
such as family, friendship and sports. Kaling said
the film inspired her to reflect on her childhood
experiences and consider what might be
included among her own Islands of Personality.

"I was thinking role model island, you know,
what I want to project as a role model," the
35-year-old entertainer said. "Definitely fashion
island. Friendship island, of course, because
I'm very interested in my female friends; 4 p.m.
snack island; mid-30s panic island. So I have a
lot of islands. Some of them are helpful, some
of them are not."

Kaling has also been thinking about the sitcom
she created and stars in, "The Mindy Project,"
which was dropped by Fox last month and
quickly picked up by Hulu. With twice the
episodes of a typical network season, Kaling
said her team plans to experiment with "new,
creative storytelling techniques."

"It gives you a little more room," she said,
especially since the episodes will be released
weekly, rather than all at once as some
streaming services do.

When it comes to content, though, Kaling is
keeping her audience in mind: "The Mindy
Project" won't be racier just because it's
moving online.

"Our show was pretty damn risque when we
were on broadcast TV," she said. "If anything, it's
like I know that 14-year-old girls are watching
the show, and I don't want to show them
anything that they're not ready to sort of see."

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JUDD APATOW REFLECTS
ON A LIFE IN COMEDY IN

NEW BOOK

The comedy education of Judd Apatow began
with unusual access to great comic minds, which
he pried for straightforward instruction: How do
you tell a joke?

Growing up on Long Island as a comedy nerd
before there was such a thing (or many others
like him), Apatow managed to land interviews
with the likes of Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno and
Steve Allen, most of whom turned up expecting
something other than a 15-year-old kid with a
high school radio show.

It was a foundational beginning for what became
a career that has done a lot to define comedy in
the last 20 years, from "The Larry Sanders Show"
to "Freaks and Geeks," from "The Cable Guy" to
"The 40 Year-Old Virgin."

In a new book, "Sick in the Head: Conversations
About Life and Comedy," out Tuesday, Apatow,
47, returns to those high-school interviews (he
kept the tapes) to publish them, as well as add
new, more recent talks with many others (Louis
C.K., Jon Stewart, Chris Rock). Proceeds go to
Dave Eggers' 826, which provides free tutoring
and literacy programs to kids.

The conversations center on comedy - where it
comes from, how it works - but grow into more
expansive and intimate reflections on life from
some of the sharpest, most thoughtful minds
around. The intervening decades reveal less
about Apatow's much-improved standing than
his continuing comedy-nerd curiosity and his
ongoing pleasure in what Stewart calls "the joy of
the funny."

Here are excerpts from a recent eNews Magazine
interview with Apatow:

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ON HIS FIRST TIME PERFORMING
STANDUP

The first time I did standup, I said to the audience:
"Hey, I don't know how to respond to hecklers
so I'd like you to heckle me so I can learn howto
do it." And then the whole crowd started cursing
me out. I used to have a tape of it and on the
tape you could hear my friend, Kevin Weltmann,
screaming at people to shut up because they
wouldn't stop cursing me out. So they would
curse for a while, then I would take a long pause
and say, "See, I don't know what to say. I gotta
think of something to say."

ON HIS FIRST PAYING GIG

Rosanne (Barr) gave me the job that changed my
life the most because she was the first person to
pay me well. That was the day I realized I could
afford valet parking. I always say money doesn't
really change much in life once you can pay for
valet parking.

ON WORKING WITH COMEDIANS

For me to sit in a restaurant talking to Steve
Martin, it feels very otherworldly. I always wanted
to be part of those groups of comedians, like
Second City. I wasn't able to join "Saturday Night
Live" or Second City, but in my own way, I was
able to create my own groups of funny people
that worked together a lot. That was always
the dream. It wasn't for me to be successful,
it was really for me to collaborate with people
I respected. I just loved comedy people and I
wanted to be around them.

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I'm interested just in how people are surviving
and trying to remain relevant as the decades
go on. After success what is the point of doing
this? That's a lot of what (his 2009 film) "Funny
People" is about. It's such a strange job. You work
very hard to be given the opportunity to tell jokes
in front of people or make movies. But when
you've done it for a while and the newness of
it wears off, you are left with just one question:
What do I want to say?

ON RETURNING TO STANDUP

While I was working on (the upcoming comedy)
"Trainwreck," Amy Schumer was having so much
fun doing stand-up comedy and I got jealous.

I thought: "Why did I stop doing that?" One of
the reasons was because I was so young. I did
it between ages 17 and 24. 1 didn't have that
much life experience to draw on and I wasn't the
most innovative comedian. You work on a movie
for years and you find out in one weekend if
anyone liked it. I wanted to do something in
comedy that was immediate and fun and also
much lower stakes.

SO, HOW DO YOU TELL A JOKE?

It's so funny because you do have to figure out
your worldview and your attitude. I remember
I was doing standup one night and Dave Attell
and I were talking about my set and I was getting
very philosophical about what I was trying to
say and he was like, "Just be funny! People just
want you to be funny!" I really needed to hear
that. Gary Shandling was there one night and he
said: "You're always at your funniest when you
don't look like you're trying to be a comedian.
When you're yourself, it works best." So I try to
remember that.

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